Capital Punishment U.K. - Contents Page

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Individual cases

(chronological)

Capital punishment in Britain.

Catherine Hayes

History of the death penalty in Britain

Complete listings of British executions

Sarah Malcolm

The history of judicial hanging in Britain

England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964

Jenny Diver

Timeline of British capital punishment

England & Wales 1868 - 1899 & 1837 - 1868

Elizabeth Harrard

British hangmen 1850 - 1964 & 1800 - 1964

England & Wales 1800 - 1827 & 1827 -1836

Mary Blandy

Abolition of capital punishment in Britain

England & Wales 1735 – 1799 by circuit

Elizabeth Jeffries

The reprieve system

Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963

Earl Ferrers

The female executed 1735 - 1799

Northern Ireland 1900 -1961

Elizabeth Brownrigg

The female hanged 1800 - 1868  Pt. 2 1868 - 1955

Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954 & 1835 - 1899

Mary Jones

Focus on the execution of children & juveniles

Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions

Ann Beddingfield

Arguments for and against capital punishment (UK)

Royal Commission Reports 1886 & 1953

Charlotte Gardiner

Thoughts on crime and punishment

Thoughts on Human Rights

Elizabeth Taylor

The 18th & 19th century UK index page

Elizabeth Sedgwick

The death penalty in the USA.

Phoebe Harris

Hanged by the neck until you are dead

Billy Bailey

Sarah Lloyd

Lethal Injection

Velma Barfeld, Karla Faye Tucker, Christina Riggs

Ann Hurle

The electric chair

Toni Jo Henry, Nicholas Ingram & Judi Buenoano

Eliza Fenning

The gas chamber

Barbara Graham & Robert Alton Harris

Elizabeth Fricker

Firing squad – Gilmore, Taylor & Gardner

US executions updated monthly

Melinda Mapson

The American female hanged

Arguments for and against capital punishment (USA)

Infanticide (4 cases)

American female executions 1900 - 2010

 

Catherine Kinrade

 

 

John Thurtell

Execution methods

Jane Scott

Present day and modern methods

From times gone by

Bel Mc’Menemy

The process of judicial hanging

Burning at the stake

Helen Blackwood

Shooting and the firing squad

The garrotte

Sarah Dazley

Lethal Injection

The guillotine

Elizabeth Browne

The electric chair

Hanging, drawing and quartering

Maria Manning

The gas chamber

The Gallows Galleries

Ann Lawrence

Beheading

The Gallows Galleries 2

Frances Kidder

 

Elizabeth Pearson

Histories of some English “hanging” prisons & Places of execution

Mary Ann Barry

York castle prison

Newgate prison 1800 - 1902

William Horry

Armley prison Leeds

Pentonville prison

Frances Stewart

Wandsworth prison

Holloway prison

Mary Lefley

Durham prison

Maidstone prison

Selina Wadge

Strangeways prison (Manchester)

Shepton Mallet prison

Kate Webster

Walton prison (Liverpool)

Lancaster Castle

Mary Wheeler

Gloucester prison

Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey

Baby Farmers

Places of execution 18/19th centuries

Places of execution in the 20th century

Mary Ann Ansell

 

 

Louise Masset

Capital punishment worldwide

Emily Swann

Overview of the death penalty in 2009

Executions worldwide updated monthly

Rhoda Willis

Female executions 1990 - 2010

Female hangings worldwide 1988 - 2010

Edith Thompson

Abolition of the death penalty in Europe

Focus on the execution of women in Iran

Susan Newell

The situation in Commonwealth countries

Focus on the execution of children in Iran

Louie Calvert

Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962

Focus on executions in Kuwait

Charlotte Bryant

Nazi female war criminals

Spanish executions 1812 - 1975

Nurse Waddingham

Women executed by the Nazis

Australian executions 1880 - 1967

James McNicol

Some cases from around the world

Derek Bentley

Irma Grese

Juana Borman

Styllou Christofi

Jean Lee

Mariette Bosch

Ruth Ellis

Sandra Smith

Flor Contemplacion

Dennis Howard

Angel Pui Peng

John Scripps

Vivian Teed

Mona Fandey

Hilda Blake

Ronald Marwood

Links, about the author and bibliography

 

Links to other interesting sites

About the author and bibliography